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AI model usage rankings - September 23, 2026

As published on September 23, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 14.2%. Space Bunny Alpha, Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch), OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch), OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch), Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) entered the leaderboard for the first time. OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) moved 27 places up since September 22, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 14.2% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 12.1% usage share
  3. #3 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 8.6% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 8.2% usage share
  5. #5 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 6.3% usage share
  6. #6 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 2.9% usage share
  7. #7 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 2.4% usage share
  8. #8 Tencent: Hy3 - 2.3% usage share
  9. #9 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.3% usage share
  10. #10 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 2.1% usage share
Change since September 22, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)14.2%+1 (+0.9pts)
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)12.1%-1 (-3.3pts)
03DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04238.6%+1 (0pts)
04Tencent: Hy4 preview8.2%-1 (-2pts)
05OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)6.3%no change
06Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash2.9%+17 (+2.1pts)
07NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)2.4%-1 (-1.2pts)
08Tencent: Hy32.3%no change
09Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.3%+1 (+0.6pts)
10OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)2.1%+27 (+1.7pts)
11OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.9%+4 (+0.7pts)
12Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.51.7%-5 (-1.7pts)
13Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.6%-4 (-0.3pts)
14Space Bunny Alpha New1.5%-
15DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04231.4%-4 (0pts)
16Z.ai: GLM 5.21.3%-2 (+0.1pts)
17Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.3%-4 (0pts)
18Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.3%-2 (+0.1pts)
19Upstage: Solar Pro 41.2%-7 (-0.1pts)
20MiniMax: MiniMax M31.1%-2 (+0.1pts)
21Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) New1.0%-
22MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.0%-3 (0pts)
23inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin0.9%-2 (+0.1pts)
24OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.9%no change
25Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.8%-5 (-0.1pts)
26Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.8%-4 (0pts)
27Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.8%-10 (-0.3pts)
28OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch) New0.7%-
29Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.6%-4 (0pts)
30Meta: Muse Spark 1.30.5%-1 (+0.1pts)
31Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.5%-3 (0pts)
32OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.5%-6 (0pts)
33OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.4%-6 (0pts)
34Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-1 (0pts)
35Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.4%-1 (0pts)
36Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.4%-5 (0pts)
37Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.4%-5 (0pts)
38Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.3%+5 (+0.1pts)
39NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.3%no change
40Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.3%+4 (0pts)
41inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL0.3%-11 (-0.1pts)
42Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%-2 (0pts)
43Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX0.3%-5 (-0.1pts)
44Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)0.3%-9 (-0.1pts)
45OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) New0.3%-
46Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) New0.3%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 23, 2026. Later corrections to the data pipeline appear as new dated snapshots - this page's figures never change.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of September 23, 2026.

Benchmark scores: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Methodology: www.smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

Token counts originate from each provider's own tokenizer and are not directly comparable across providers.